conversion

i have a struct loaded and one of it's fields contains names such that struct(1).name contains "First" struct(2).name containis "Second" and so on

I would like to use these struct fields as a variable in my code. For example I'd like to set struct(1).name=content of some matrix so instead of saying X=[1;2;3] i'd like to say struct(1).name=[1,2,34] so First=[1,2,34] would be stored in the workspace. I just don't know how i need to convert struct(i).name to be able to use it

[Baba]

i think i was looking for varname = genvarname(struct(1).name)

Answer 1

[Jan]

Creating variables dynamically is prone to errors, hard to debug and slows down Matlab. Therefore it is recommended to avoid this.

A more efficient approach is using dynamic fieldnames:

data.(struct(1).name) = [1, 2, 34];
data.(struct(2).name) = [1, 2, 34];

Then the new variables are encapsulated in the struct data.

[Jonathan]

I agree.

Answer 2

[Jonathan]

Baba,

This will do what you described.

structVar(1).name = 'First';
structVar(2).name = 'Second';
makeVarFun = @(str, val) assignin('caller', genvarname(str), val);
for i = 1:numel(structVar)
    varName = structVar(i).name;
    makeVarFun(varName, i);
end